Master-class: herringbone from sisal. PI sheet, recommendations

Want to learn how to make beautiful New Yeardecorating? To quickly master the manufacturing technology, learn the master class "Christmas tree of sisal." Several variants of designs and decor are considered below. Read, choose the right kind. Create spectacular details of the festive atmosphere.

Sisal

This term is understood as a specialA natural fiber obtained from fresh leaves of a plant of the genus Agava. Unpainted material has a light yellowish tinge. For practical purposes it is used for the production of ropes, twine and other things. Currently sisal is popular in the field of decoration of floral compositions, as well as the creation of handmade souvenirs and ornaments. The master class "Christmas tree from sisal" will teach you how to use the properties of this material most effectively for design purposes.

Christmas gifts

If you are interested in the possibilities of thismaterial or have long been eyeing it in a flower shop, then it's time to create with it gifts in the style of hand-made. Master class "Christmas tree of sisal" will show you how to make different kinds of ornaments:

a fur-tree-suspension bracket;
topiary;
a herringbone of sisal balls.

There are different manufacturing options. Decoration for the holiday can be done both in traditional green color, and in any other, for example, blue or red. The material is sold in a fairly wide range of colors, but on the eve of the New Year holidays, green may not be. So it's worthwhile to worry beforehand, but if you did not have time, it's okay - you just have to color the available blanks in the right color.

What will be required

A herringbone of sisal with her own hands canproduced in different ways. Materials for the implementation of the basis can be used any: both purchased ones, and those that you already have in stock. All options will be considered below, and the list of necessary tools, compositions and accessories is as follows:

polyfoam cone;
cardboard or paper;
pencil;
compass;
a stapler or an adhesive tape;
adhesive or thermal gun;
wire;
wire cutters;
gypsum or alabaster;
mixing container;
stirring stick;
a glass or a pot for fixing the base;
rod, stick, skewers for creating a trunk;
sisal of the right color;
paint corresponding shade sisal;
brush or sponge (sponge);
decorative elements (satin ribbons, beads, beads, sequins, bows, balls, tinsel, soft artificial snow, etc.)

Using this list, you can easily determine what you need or what method of work to choose, based on what you already have available.

How to make a Christmas tree billet from paper

That at you it turned out beautiful and accurateherringbone from sisal (it's not so difficult to make such a miracle yourself, as in the picture above), you need to properly prepare the basis for decorating. If you have not bought a foam block, it's easiest to do it in the form of a cone made of cardboard or heavy paper. The work proceeds in this order:

Fold a sheet of paper in the form of a bag or draw a circle of the future cone with a compass and ruler.
Glue the overlap of the workpiece with a thermo gun, conventional glue, adhesive tape (you can double-sided) or fasten the seam in several places with a stapler.
Draw on another sheet of paper or paperboardcircle, diameter corresponding to the base. Allowances for gluing should be done if you do not have a thermo gun. They can attach one part to the other end.
Glue the circle to the cone.
Paint the resulting detail in the tone of the sisal so that ugly gray cardboard or white paper does not appear through the spaces between the fibers.

The workpiece is completed. You can start decorating.

Fabric Foundation

You learned how to make a herringbone from sisal, or rather,until they made only a basis for it from paper. Another option is to make a soft blank from a fabric or filler, such as a sintepon. To do this, you need to do the following:

Cut the sintepon or prepared dense fabric into strips. The width and length depend on the size of the material you have, and the size of the souvenir that you plan to make.
As a frame, take a strong wire of the required length.
Begin winding on the bar of the stripsintepona from the place where the top of the tree will be, down, not reaching the end of the wire a few centimeters. To the material does not move away from the frame, be sure to fix it with glue.
When the first strip is finished, continue the second one, and so on.
Pay special attention to the base of the workpiece. In this part, there should be a uniform expansion.

The second method will require a more densethe location of the sisal fibers so that the filler does not show through, but with this method you can give the tree a slightly rounded shape. It will look more natural, not geometric.

How to make a suspension

So, you learned how to make a Christmas tree. From sisal you get very beautiful topiary, it will be wonderful to look and suspension, and just an ornament that can be put on the festive table. Depending on what you want to make, choose the appropriate way of fastening (setting) the craft.

If you want your souvenir to beput on a Christmas tree or decorate the interior, and think how to make a herringbone, hold a loop or hook at the top of the workpiece. You can make such a functional element like this:

1. For a paper cone: fold a small piece of wire in the form of a loop and thread into the hole - the top of the cone. On the inside, tie a knot, twist the ends of the wire with wire cutters, and from the outside, drip the glue from the thermo-gun. Perform the operation until the bottom is glued.

2. For soft workpiece: before starting winding the strips on the rod, retreat the desired length of the wire and fold into a loop. If you want the suspension element to be thinner and more decorative than the core of the frame, attach a loop made of a thin wire or other material to the top of the rod.

Christmas trees of sisal

The master class approached the most responsiblestage - gluing the sisal layer. Do this carefully so as not to damage the fibers. If the color of the base of the tree corresponds to the shade of the material, you can glue the sisal into one layer. When you need to hide the "insides", you'll have to try and wrap the tree with a lot of material if you bought it in the form of a roll.

As for the base, you can cut it incircle, and gently decorate the border of the transition from the cone to the bottom. If you have sisal in the form of a fiber, not a sheet (roll), the surface of the Christmas tree may turn out to be excessively shaggy. To eliminate this drawback, it is necessary to wrap the blank with a special bouillon thread, for example, of silver color.

New Year Topiary

This souvenir is a small man-made tree trimmed in a ball in a pot.

Usually, a foam ball is taken as the base.or a papier-mâché sphere. If you want to make a topical "Yolochka" from sisal, then as a blank, take the same cone as for a regular Christmas tree. In order for your Christmas tree to become what is called a topiary, you will have to make a stem, which is fixed at one end in a cone, and the second in a pot. This construction is performed as follows:

Take a glass, pot or other suitable container.
Pour some water and put plaster or alabaster. Stir the ingredients thoroughly. The consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
Pour the composition into the pot.
Immediately, until the plaster is frozen, set to the center.a pot of wand, a rod, or a stalk made of several thin skewers. Hold it so that it does not fall and move until the mass hardens.
When the composition is solid, cut the top of the cup, if you do not topped up the plaster to the brim.
Wrap the stem with decorative tape. It is better to do this at this stage so as not to stain the decorated surface with drops of liquid gypsum when installing the rod.
Also decorate the pot with, for example, a satin ribbon.
The surface of the gypsum is easy to decorate with the same sisal, tinsel, beads or coffee beans.
Fix the cone on the rod, after cutting a hole of the appropriate diameter in the base of the craft. Butt glue thermogun.

If you have a Christmas tree made of soft material,wound on a metal rod, you do not need an additional stem. Put the finished structure directly into the pot with hardened plaster. The main thing - do not stain the product.

Sisal Balls

All steps for making such a souvenir will be similar to those described above. The difference is that the surface of the tree will not be smooth, but consisting of balls.

They can be twisted directly from the fibers orto use as a basis any filler, for example, a synthetic winterizer, which will be wrapped with sisal on top. This will save decorative material and make more balls. By the way, they can be the same in diameter or different. In the latter case, large need to be located closer to the base of the tree, and small, respectively, to the top.

How to decorate a product

Christmas trees from sisal look especially cute if they are decorated with all sorts of small details.

Options you can use such:

String beads or beads on a thread or wire (or buy ready-made) and spiral wrap the product from the top to the bottom.
The same as in the previous paragraph, it is easy to make with the help of a thin satin, brocade or other decorative ribbon, lace or braid.
Glue in the base of the Christmas tree or on the top of a pot of lumps of artificial snow (purchased or made of cotton).
Cut out figured snowflakes and glue them on the surface of the tree.
Use tinsel.
In the free areas between the ribbons you can place small balls, bows.

So, the master class "Herringbone from sisal" came to an end. We discussed several options for creating a beautiful New Year's decor. Choose your favorite and start the creative process.